Dispatches from 01SJ

“Cheek to Cheek” by Bernie Lubell, 1999 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

“OutRun” by Garnet Hertz, South Hall and beyond
FYI this is a video game that you play as you drive around the city. WHAAAT?

“No Matter” by Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott, 2008 at the San Jose Museum of Art
They hired Second Life players to create digital representations of 40 legendary objects (Icarus’s wings, Yellow Submarine, Holy Grail, pot of gold) which they then handcrafted in real life.

“Le Monde des Montagnes” (The World of Mountains), by Camille Scherrer, 2008 at San Jose Museum of Art
The screen was a live image of the book on the table. As you turned the pages, new worlds would apppear from and within the pictures on the pages.

from “Mapping Non-Conformity: From the Global Border to the Border Neighborhood” by Teddy Cruz at MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana)